Bud Coleman, chair of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Department of Theatre and Dance, will become the first faculty member to occupy the Roe Green Chair in Theatre when the recent $2 million dollar gift from Green, a C.U. alum, kicks in, starting in 2015.

Green graduated from C.U. in 1970 then went on to study theater in graduate school at Kent State University in Ohio.

Now a resident of Cleveland, she has contributed generously to the arts in that city and had more than a hand in the opening of the $13 million Roe Green Center for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State.